Definitionn. walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
Last update: July 8, 2015
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The old black, not in any very high glee at having been previously roused from his warm hammock at a most unseasonable hour, came shambling along from his galley, for, like many old blacks, there was something the matter with his knee-pans, which he did not keep well scoured like his other pans; this old Fleece, as they called him, came shuffling and limping along, assisting his step with his tongs, which, after a clumsy fashion, were made of straightened iron hoops; this old Ebony floundered along, and in obedience to the word of command, came to a dead stop on the opposite side of Stubb's sideboard; when, with both hands folded before him, and resting on his two-legged cane, he bowed his arched back still further over, at the same time sideways inclining his head, so as to bring his best ear into play. [Please select]
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He saw him stride forward and, with a well-directed shove, send the shambling inebriate reeling across the floor. [Please select]
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His angry green eyes seemed to clear a path before him, in spite of the grins which his hump and shambling legs excited among strangers. [Please select]
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"You shambling, contemptible old carle, without grace, I have stayed too long your water and wood thrall." [Please select]
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He drew off, shaking his vast antlers, and went shambling with spacious stride down along the barrier towards the brook. [Please select]
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Barely eluding his rush, she went shambling up the shore at a terrific pace, plunged into the woods, and vanished. [Please select]
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He leaned heavily on his cane, and took a shambling step toward the door. [Please select]
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Half way down the hill Eric met a shambling, old gray horse drawing an express wagon which had seen better days. [Please select]
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At the side of the street grew a gnarled _kiri_ tree, its shambling roots encroaching on the roadway. [Please select]
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She held herself straight, walked gracefully instead of shambling, and was careful to allow no uncouth expressions to escape her. [Please select]
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Within half a dozen paces of them, in the full moonlight, the shambling figure halted and salaamed with clawlike hands extended. [Please select]
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